Astronomy News

European astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the New Technology Telescope, and TRAPPIST: TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope,...

European astronomers using ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have detected a 10 million light-years long bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters,...

A study by Dr Stephen Curran of the University of Sydney and Dr Matthew Whiting of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science has addressed the mystery of why...

An international team of astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has discovered a super-Jupiter around the star Kappa Andromedae. This...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories to peer at the heart of the planetary...

By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a candidate for the most...

A new composite image combining far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories reveals the details of the supernova...

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope has detected a rogue planet, an interstellar...

According to a team of U.S. astronomers, comets have been colliding with one another every six seconds for millions of years in the Kuiper Belt-like disk...

Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the lenticular galaxy NGC...

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the center of the remarkable...

A multinational team of astronomers using data from ESO’s HARPS instrument has discovered a new exoplanet in the habitable zone around the nearby...

Yale astronomers have reported the discovery of a stream of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by our Milky...

A colorful, close-up view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 has been taken by astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory...

Astronomers using the giant Keck telescope in Hawaii have detected two superluminous supernovae – stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than...

An international team of scientists using the European Photon Imaging Camera aboard ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has snapped a stunning new...

Using sophisticated computer modeling programs, astrophysicists have shed light on the long-standing mystery of the binding force behind a cluster of unruly...

Astronomers using the Low-Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy (LOFAR) have captured a stunning image of a bubble of particles surrounding a supermassive...

By combining observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and radio data from...